We’ve spent lots of time mining the Scriptural gold that John 3:16 contains. It’s an inexhaustible vein of heavenly wisdom flowing from God’s heart.

What’s black and white and black and white and black and white?

The title above was the original title of a poem that became very famously known in America. Do you know what the poem is?

He traveled Spain’s dusty roads on a broken down, scrawny nag named Rocinante. His rickety armor once belonged to his great-grandfather, but years of neglect had taken its toll.

When the Lord charged Moses with the task of leading his people out of Egypt, the Hebrew people were promised a new land of such great blessings that it was described as “a land of milk and honey.”

Brunelleschi’s Dome has dominated the skyline of Florence, Italy, since 1469, the crowning glory of the Florence Cathedral (which is exceeded in size only by St. Peter’s in Rome and St. Paul’s…

Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player to get the chance to play Major League Baseball, faced terrible persecution in visiting ballparks. Even his own home fans gave him a hard time.

God is not a respecter of persons. He is not prejudiced against skin color. That was the point of Acts 10 where a Gentile man named Cornelius came to Christ.

An African American man in Texas wrote and published this on the internet:

“It looks like a really big wedding cake gone wrong!” laughed one tourist.

The young wife asked in all sincerity at the weekly prayer meeting of her church, “Pray for my husband, who, very tragically, got me nothing for our anniversary when I specifically told him I …

For 19 centuries, this aqueduct brought life-giving water to Segovia, Spain. It was constructed around 115 AD, under the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajan, to channel water from the Rio Frio n…

The March 23, 1992, issue of Newsweek contained a letter from the Greenville County, S.C., Department of Social Services. It read like this:

Julie, my dear wife, showed me something recently that I share with you: A thought from what might happen when you get to heaven, assuming you are faithful until death.

Joe Delaney was a rising star running back with the Kansas City Chiefs National Football League team in 1983. Just 24, with two seasons behind him, he was destined for the NFL Hall of Fame.

The old man pulled up to the red light on his moped. In the next lane was a Ferrari convertible driven by a young man.

What does Jesus look like? Or perhaps we should ask, “Who does Jesus look like?”

The following was said of a man known in the community as a habitual liar: “I knew he was lying because his lips were moving!”

This needle will never get lost in a haystack. At 605 feet tall and 138 feet wide (at the top), Seattle’s iconic Space Needle is visible for miles, easily one of the world’s most recognizable …

I have been a substitute teacher since October 2017. I have recently been teaching health in middle school.

Christmas is over; a new year is here. What can each of us do to make a positive difference in 2021? Let’s offer everyone we see a gift!

We can now say that “hindsight is 2020.” That old saying simply meant that once something is past, we can understand it more clearly.

‘Twas the night before New Year’s, and all around town, the folks were astir, they could hardly calm down. The night club was buzzing as people poured in: “Gimme a good time, now let it begin!”

Not bad for a 20-year-old. But of course, Leonardo da Vinci was no ordinary young man.

From Readers Digest, April 2019, page 99, comes this story of new recruits arrive for basic training. They are lined up to get their first “military” haircut. One recruit recounts his story li…